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too obvious — early versions
had a Granada owner’s manual
glove compartment.
the early ‘80s, Lincoln and
Jac both introduced a new
a theme borrowed from the
ge Rolls Royce on their respec-
id-size luxury sedans: The
lac Seville and Lincoln
inental. Unfortunately, the ugly
leback” trunk design never
ton and both companies even-
dropped the weird design.
er American cars from the
at are on my design-blunder
clude the unreliable Chevy
imply designed Dodge Dart,
liar Chrysler Cordoba, vertical-
Mercury Cougar XR7, and
of the compact to mid-sized
from GM in the ‘80s.
e Japanese cars weren't exact-
lish either, when they were just
ing to appear in mass num-
in the ‘70s. The vulnerable
RX-3, for example, looked

cluttered and unsophisticated despite
its technologically-advanced rotary
engine nestled under its hood (which
by the way became a repair night-
mare story).

The highly efficient Honda
Civic’s humble, stumpy shape got
no respect from the consumers in
those days too; people just pointed at
it and chuckled at its toy-like design.

Even in the ‘80s, cars like the
Subaru X'T “wedge™ coupe and
choppy Nissan Pulsar proved that
designers still make mistakes —
major mistakes — when designing
new vehicles.

Europeans had their share of
strange designs. The early *70s Fiats,
Renaults and Saabs looked like they
were designed by someone with
absolutely no understanding of
what’s handsome and what's not.

Fortunately, Saab changed the
design of its 900 models recently
and now they fall under my “great
design” list.

Thanks to better marketing and
design studies conducted nowadays,

weird designs seem to have disap-
peared, but some unexplainable ones
still remain.

Take the Chevy Caprice. ‘Though
relatively handsume looking from
the front, the bulky back and rear-
quarter style caused the 1991 model
to earn the nickname “whale”.
Chevy cleaned up the design last
year and incorporated a slimmer
looking rear.

The Buick Skylark (photo
shown) is another one that seems to
have escaped the corporate filtering
process, I'm uot sure what the
designers had in mind when they
decided to stick a bird-like beak in
the front of an awkward angled side
profile, but | hope this is the last
time we will see an offensive design
from GM.

The good news is that recent
entries from GM, like the beautiful
Buick Riviera and futuristic Olds
Aurora, seem to indicate that GM
designers are now ona roll.

Life will be too boring if every-
thing looks perfect anyway.

urrently scheduled B.C. ferry sailings

FOLLOWING are the cur-
schedules for the B.C. Ferry
poration:

Horseshoe Bay to Nanaimo
¥ Nanaimo to Horseshoe Bay:
Wve Horseshoe Bay daily at 7

9am., 10 am., 11 am., 1

2 p.m., 3 p.m., 5 p.m., 6

7 p.m., 9 p.m. and 10 p.m.

ave Nanaimo daily at 7 a.m.,
jit:., 9 am., I] am., noon, 1
}, 3 p.m., 4 p.m., 5 p.m., 7
+ 8 p.m. and 9 p.m.

Horseshoe Bay to Langdaie
Langdale to Horseshoe Bay:
ve Horseshoe Bay at 7:30
2, 9:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 1:15
3:30 p.m., 3:30 p.m., 7:25
and 9:15 p.m., also on
Ways, Sundays, holiday
idays only at 10:10 p.m.
eave Langdale at 6:20 a.m.,
)a.m., 10:30 a.m., 12:25 p.m.,

2:30 p.m., 4:30 p.m., 6:30 p.m.
and 8:20 p.m. also on Fridays,
Sundays and holiday Mondays
only at 10:10 p.m.

Horseshoe Bay to Bowen
Island and Bowen Island to
Horseshoe Bay: Leave Horseshoe
Bay at 6:05 a.m., 7 a.m., 8 a.m.,
8:55 a.m. (the Thursday sailing
will be replaced by a dangerous
cargo sailing at which time no
passengers will be allowed to
board), 9:50 a.m., 11:15 a.m.,
12:05 p.m., 2:30 p.m., 3:30 p.m.,
4:25 p.m., 5:25 p.m., 6:25 p.m.,
7:45 p.m., 8:35 p.m. and 9:25 p.in.

Leave Bowen Island at 5:45
a.m. (daily except Sundays and
statutory holidays), 6:35 a.m.,
7:35 am., 8:30 a.m., 9:25 a.m.,
10:50 a.m., 11:40 a.m., 12:30
p.m., 3 p.m., 3:55 p.m. (the
Thursday sailing will be replaced

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